SACE Stage 2 Visual Arts - Art case studies
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SACE Stage 2 Visual Arts - Art is a senior secondary subject within the South Australian Certificate of Education, the qualification administered by the SACE Board of South Australia. It appears in the SACE subject list alongside Visual Arts - Design, and it is designed for students who want to build a sustained body of creative work and think seriously about how art is made, seen and interpreted. The SACE Stage 2 Visual Arts - Art case studies are 6 cases and about 4,032 words.
1The folio that turned into a portfolio
A Year 12 student is 14 weeks into the Folio, with six weeks until submission. The folio runs to 22 A3 pages on the theme 'coastal erosion'.
755 words, about 4 min2The cracking board
A student's Practical is a 1.5 × 1.0 m acrylic painting on 3 mm untempered masonite, built up over five weeks in eleven poured and brushed layers. Two weeks before the due date the surface has begun to crack along the board's grain in the lower third, and paint is lifting at two corners.
780 words, about 4 min3The work that will not survive November
A student's Practical is a time-based installation: 400 hand-folded paper forms suspended on fishing line above 12 blocks of ice in the school courtyard. As the ice melts over roughly 40 minutes the forms descend and collapse.
494 words, about 2 min4The visual study that describes instead of investigates
A student's Visual Study runs to 18 pages comparing three artists on the theme 'light in the built environment'. Fourteen pages are biographical summary with reproductions pasted in; four pages are pencil copies of the artists' works.
737 words, about 4 min5The fork in the folio
At week 16 a student abandoned a portrait investigation and began a landscape investigation. The folio now holds 12 pages of portraits - observational studies, two resolved paintings, notes on a grandparent's illness - followed by 10 pages of landscapes with no page bridging them.
712 words, about 4 min6The borrowed image
A student's Visual Study includes six pages built around photographs of a living artist's paintings, downloaded from the artist's website and printed full-page. Two pages carry no caption or commentary.
554 words, about 3 min